Operational Systems

Components of systems

The systems being used at Mercator Ocean are based on multiple data sources for operational needs (near real-time data) as well as reanalysis needs (delayed time data). These data sources are also leveraged for validation of these systems.

Operational systems

An operational numerical forecasting system is the combination of a model configuration and a real time assimilation system. Each week, Mercator Ocean runs a full range of operational systems for analysing and forecasting the ocean in three dimensions.

About us

In routine or in real time, on a global or regional scale, both on the surface and beneath it, Mercator Ocean describes, analyses and forecasts the state of the ocean by developing the "Mercator System" for ocean analysis and forecasting and maintaining it in an operational condition.

Mercator Ocean is a privately-owned non-profit company. It provides a service of general interest to France and Europe as a whole. The organisation was founded and is funded by the five major French institutions involved in operational oceanography: CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Météo-France and SHOM.